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In his glam-tastic debut, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, director John Cameron Mitchell paired sexuality and rock & roll to tell the story of a dubiously gendered rock singer. In Shortbus, Mitchell's follow-up, the rock takes a back seat to the kink. This isn't your father's porn, so in place of cheesy synths and wicka-wicka guitar lines, Mitchell mines a mother lode of alt-rock, with original songs ranging from shambolic freak folk on the Animal Collective's "Winter's Love"; wistful singer-songwriter fare from John LaMonica and Jay Brannan; the indie pop of Azure Ray, the Hidden Cameras and Yo La Tengo (who scored the movie); and the arena/dance-rock freakouts of Sweden's the Ark. The music in Shortbus may lack the unifying force of Hedwig's narrative, but Mitchell still has the touch to deliver a sentimental collection of indie rock that could teach Zach Braff a thing or two.
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Track List
- Upside Down
- If You Fall
- Wizard's Sleeve
- Winter's Love
- Surgery
- Beautiful
- It's Not Safe
- Kids
- Language
- Soda Shop
- Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby?
- Kolla Kolla
- Boys of Melody
- Little Bird
- This Piece of Poetry Is Meant to Do Harm
- This House
- In the End (Long Film Version)
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In the End (Acoustic) (track not available in Rhapsody)
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